The Ladies' Fancy Needle-Work instructor: Containing a Treatise on Different Stitches, with Illustrative Plates
London: Privately Printed, 1842. 24mo. A scarce 1842 3rd printing of this antebellum era sewing primer, with a fold-out broadside at the front depicting 35 different 19th-century stitches. Charcoal grey cloth. Gilt titling and illustration to front board. All edges gilt. Clean interior. Hinges a touch tender but intact..... More